(v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
(v. t.) To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
(v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
(v. t.) To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
(v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
(v. t.) To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
(v. i.) To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
(v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
(n.) Satisfaction; content.
(n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(4) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(5) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(6) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(7) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
(8) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(9) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
(10) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(11) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(12) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(13) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
(14) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
(15) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
(16) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(17) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(18) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
(19) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(20) So fourth, we must tackle the issue of a relatively large number of officers kept on restricted duties, on full pay.
Prepay
Definition:
(v. t.) To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(2) The three prepayment plans appealed to different population groups.
(3) Thus prepayment in an organized setting did change hospital and ambulatory care utilization but did not reduce medical care costs.
(4) A group practice prepayment plan in Baltimore had consumers on its governing board and, in alliance with a powerful medical institution, successfully organized around political, economic, and social issues.
(5) Ofgem data showed that in 2014 around 130,000 electricity and 103,000 gas customers switched to credit meters – just 3% of all prepayment customers.
(6) A spokesman for Ofgem says: "The supplier is obligated to supply information on how a customer can obtain assistance if a prepayment meter is not operating effectively, including details of timescales for removal and resetting of the meter if that action is necessary."
(7) We studied the impact on use of services of only one factor-prepayment at the Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin--with all other factors, including group practice, held constant.
(8) He added: “Tens of millions of pounds have been spent by the CMA and the companies themselves just to produce this low-key set of remedies.” Atherton is not convinced about the value of plans to cap prepayment meter bills and introduce an industry-wide customer database controlled by the industry regulator, Ofgem.
(9) Our research shows many prepay meter customers have to fork out hundreds of pounds more than those on online direct debit deals.
(10) The slow adoption of sealants into dental practice is attributed partly to the fact that few prepayment plans pay for sealants.
(11) The curative health services are decentralized and provide care through a variety of plans which combine capitation prepayment and modified fee-for service.
(12) He told MPs: "The initial phase of [a government] review has concluded and we will shortly start a consultation on a range of options, including plans to extend charging to some visitors and temporary residents who were previously exempt so that the default qualification for free NHS care would be permanent, not temporary, residence; ending free access to primary care for all visitors and tourists; introducing a prepayment or insurance requirement for temporary visitors to pay for NHS healthcare; and improving how the NHS can identify, charge and recover charges where they should apply.
(13) Employees joining or not joining three newly marketed prepayment plans were surveyed during the first marketing period and during another open enrollment period 18 months later.
(14) The CMA said it was considering remedies to fix the market, including removing barriers to switching, possible price controls and measures to prompt prepayment customers to switch by allowing other suppliers to contact them to offer better tariffs.
(15) In most respects, there were no adverse effects on the work relations of physicians, in the perceived quality of medical care, or in the institutional performance of physicians at the nine participating hospitals after the introduction of prepayment.
(16) Giving prepay meter customers a better deal is a crucial part of this.” Co-operative Energy said it was cutting its prepayment rates.
(17) Medicare will not be the only benefactor of this new scheme as prepayment spreads to other payors and providers of health care.
(18) In addition, although about one-half of persons with psychiatric disorders are believed to have their only contact with health care providers in the primary care sector, research findings suggest that depression often remains undetected and untreated in this secto; and there have been few data on how appropriateness of care for depression differs for patients in different health care delivery systems, or whose care is financed by prepayment or fee-for-service arrangements.
(19) Citizens Advice called for an extension of a recent price cap by the regulator Ofgem for 4m households on prepayment meters .
(20) A number of trends over the past decade predict that this transference to prepayment will continue in the future and will have a profound impact on the future practice of family medicine.